Apple bans book on Jobs

PC VENDOR Apple has continued its crack down on people who say things it doesn't like, by putting an
unauthorised biography of Steve Jobs on its list of proscribed publications.

Mirroring the actions of the medieval church, which banned and burned books that failed to fit its version of the
word of God, Apple has banned
iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business from its shops.

According to the publishers, John Wiley & Sons, Apple has been trying for a month to prevent the publication of
the book. When it failed, it ordered that Apple stores will not be able to stock it.

The book's author, Jeffrey Young, is a little surprised that Apple has got so angry about the book. All it is, he
says, is a chronicle of Jobs' rise as an innovator and entrepreneur and includes details about his personal life such
as his divorce and fight with cancer.

In fact he thought the book was positive and laudatory. The only thing he could think that miffed the Cappuccino CEO
was that it included a bit about his personal life.

According to
Associated Press, the book spurning is just the latest in a series of clamp downs that Apple has had against
people talking about it to the media.

In January, Apple sued a 19-year-old journalist of ThinkSecret who, it said, revealed trade secrets about the Mac
mini computer. It also subpoenaed the ISPs of three online reporters who wrote about the secret products, seeking to
identify their sources.